The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-05-06

Pacific magnates. The bride received
from her father a check for ST. 000, 900
and residence in New York.
The Glasgow chamber OF commerce
has adopled a resolution declaring the
protective system of other coun ries
injurious u BRUSH trade, and asking
that ENGLAND revise her fiscal rela-
tions. The Manchester chamber af-
frm5 its llnaDated confidence in free
trades as the best commercial policy.
About the only large contract re-
Gently made in Chicago for transcon-
tinental freight WAS that of one hun
dred car loads or slaves, to % over
the California fast freight line, at an
ADVANCE of 60 per cent. The new rate
on salmon by The American roads is
81 40 to $1.45 TO Chicago. bur the Cana
dian Pacific made cut to 81.
Governor Lee. of Virginia. in con-
tradicting statement by Adam Bad
eau, that after the surrender ut Ap-
pomattox, General Lee and family
were for some time fed by a Federal
commissary, shows that the PEOPLE of
Richmond kept General Lees resi-
dence filled with provisions, much OF
which was distributed among the
poor.
II LuduuldCbuliilS Hllu III OlllClllndbl
has arranged with its employees plan
for sharing profits. The carpenters of
Milwaukee will from May work nine
hours per day. The cigar makers OF
Detroit threaten to strike next Satur-
day against Il reduction Of wages. The
closing of the stove foundries at Gin
cinnati means idlenesS all summer for
several thousand men.
The police at louisville have caught
and sent to the Kentucky penitentiary
for safe keeping u mulatto named
Turner, who conlesses the perpetra-
ton of the recent terrible assault upon
Jennie Bowman. She interrupted him
in the work Of robbing residence in
the daytime. and broke u wine glass in
fragments upon his face before he
overpowered her with poker.
A cyclone which, on Thursday even
ing, visited the northern part of Yer
non county, Missouri, killed twenty
five persons in the townships of Usage,
Metz, and Blue Mound. Early on Fri
day morning IL considerable portion of
Kentucky was ravaged by tornado.
from Paris, where houses were un-
rooted for four hundred yards.
Robert Garrett, after stating that
his negotiations with the Ives syndi-
cate are almost completed, remarked
that the combination of the Jersey
Central, Reading, Lehigh, and Penn
sylvania roads rendered it necessary
for the Baltimore and Ohio to build
from Philadelphia to New York, with
Staten Island as the terminus, for
which purpose he had been rendered
ample capital.
David Preston, the well-known
banker, died in Detroit on Sunday, of
heart disease. at the age of 60. He
wss once the Prohibition candidate for
Governor of Michigan. Many years
ago he founded clearinghouse in
Chicago. AT the outbreak of the panic
of 1873 he suspended payment at De-
troit for ten days, but within three
months was ready to. pay all indebted
ness in full and leave a large surplus
He leaves a widow and several
children.
The bureau of agriculture reports
that the losses of hogs from all causes
have been very heavy, amounting to
nearly $6,0O0,0O0 during the year. The
largest number OF deaths per hundred
have been: In Virginia, ~; Mary
land, North Carolina, Mississippi, and
20; Tennessee, 10; Louis
lana, Illinois, and Missouri, Is. The
loss is estimated at per cent. in Ohio,
5 in Michigan IL in Indiana, 5 in Wis |
III Minnesota, 10 in Iowa and
and IL in Kansas. The
average loss for all the states and ter
ritOrieS is IS l.